Trippy Imagery

Cracker Funk

Cracker Funk

I'm in preproduction for my next music video. The specifics of the production are semi-secretive, but I can tell you that the overall concept is just to make something that is really trippy. Tripping balls trippy.

It's going to be edited at a very fast pace. I want sensory overload, and I want the audience to be constantly surprised. There's no narrative of any sort, we're just going for cool imagery.

With that in mind, I don't think I can have too many ideas. If there's anything, and I mean ANYTHING that you think could be trippy, please share it here. Variety of imagery will be key in this video.

Just an example, so that you know what I'm talking about. Let's say we have an ultra-close shot of the bass player playing his guitar. Standard cliche music-vid shot. Except, the neck of his guitar has been covered in white, and we project onto it a shot of him being doused in blood. Makes no sense, but it will look cool as shit.

No idea is a bad idea. I want to hear them all. Thanks in advance for any of your thoughts. :D
 
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Because of my above example, I guess I should at that said imagery does not need to involve a band member, in any way whatsoever. There are no rules here, anything and everything is worth consideration.
 
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Cyriak's videos are always good inspiration for 'tripping balls trippy':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX3iLfcMDCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_8SDNQ0ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EEaPj-5qs
 
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Funny you should mention this, I just came across this today:

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I have literally never seen anything so accurate when it comes to what visuals actually look like while tripping.

Not sure how you'd do it on video but...
 
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Datamoshing and digital glitch art never fail to amaze me.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNa0-xrKi3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTb2oUegPZA

Mixing of styles can be trippy. The video Don't Have Me I'm Scared used stop-motion, live action, puppets, 3D animation, and all sorts of crazy stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Also...

This never fails to boggle my mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_(art_collective)#Selected_works

http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

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This is trippy too. I'm not how you could recreate this, but this is mind-melting:

http://www.larrycarlson.com/medijate
 
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Cracker, the both of us are working on "trippy" videos simultaneously. :cool: Don't think I'll be going down the fractal rabbit hole, although those Cyriak examples are pretty wild and well done. I'm incorporating some layers of video feedback which could be considered 80s trippy? Ever mess around with that?

Some cool clips and samples up there!

The Warp and Twist filters in Premiere can be useful, fun and weird. :weird:
 
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I feel that the majority of the effects should be related to one another for visual continuity. This doesn't mean that it can't be varied and complex, but too many effects could create too much information for the audience to take in, causing them to just see a big mess. I guess all I'm saying is, keep the audience in mind when selecting the effects you will use, because without fail, you'll always get the person who goes, "I don't get it" and won't go any further than rejecting it. Post the film up when you're done!
 
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Dreadylocks said:
No flippin clue. And actually, I think the more I look at it the less I understand what I'm seeing.
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Looks to me as if they took moving footage of the animal, split it up in small patches and tracked them.
Once you've got them tracked you can stabilize the patches individually and patch it back together on top of a still frame. That way you lose the major movements but still get the hair movements. Then add some trippy flow effects and well.. That probably puts gets you halfway there but I'm still clueless as to how they've finalized it.

Amazing shot....
 
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Id say due to many not so wise choices in my youth having permanently altered brain... I have a certain psychedelic sensibility...

A couple of my IT Secret Santa vids were tripy

I hate john malcovich song, is straight out of my brain.. no filtering.. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_e0MAPrsQ

My shot for shot redux of Apoclypse Now opening, though not original definitely has that "feel'

https://vimeo.com/82844083

the quick edits in my song for zensteve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysfdv5Decks


In addition..

Visual effects I did for a local filmmaker which I thought was quite tripy thing to see on the screen..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1nAmE_AvA


Talking animals are trippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VUqZPpT1rw


In response to "how would I do" and opening like the old movie "the blob"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0ZoEnviAw
 
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WhiteOpus said:
I feel that the majority of the effects should be related to one another for visual continuity. This doesn't mean that it can't be varied and complex, but too many effects could create too much information for the audience to take in, causing them to just see a big mess. I guess all I'm saying is, keep the audience in mind when selecting the effects you will use, because without fail, you'll always get the person who goes, "I don't get it" and won't go any further than rejecting it. Post the film up when you're done!
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Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing. I'm still working on the video, so I'll definitely take what you've said into mind. I agree with you that the imagery in the video should be cohesive, in some form. My difficulty is that my concept for this video involves a massive barrage of trippy imagery. I want the audience to be surprised, every second, and the video is five minutes long!

And yes, I'm appreciative of all those videos, especially the one made for me. :D
 
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Santhem said:
Looks to me as if they took moving footage of the animal, split it up in small patches and tracked them.
Once you've got them tracked you can stabilize the patches individually and patch it back together on top of a still frame. That way you lose the major movements but still get the hair movements. Then add some trippy flow effects and well.. That probably puts gets you halfway there but I'm still clueless as to how they've finalized it.

Amazing shot....
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You are over-thinking it; it's just a warped image (you can tell by the muzzle on and the waves how they stretch. The background is pretty obvious too) presented as an animated .gif Forewarned: my example is crappy because I'm a music guy not a visual guy, but still. GIMP even has a warp filter that automates most of that called IWarp. Draw in your warps (resizing, stretching, swirling), specify that you're doing it as an animation and how many frames you want to take. It will make each warp take the time that you specify, so you can have subtle warps and extreme warps going in one pass. The hard way to do it is to apply each change one step at a time and assemble them as a .gif afterwards, but no reason to go through all that effort when GIMP can do it for you! Doing it this way you can leave fixed points where no warps are applied (the eyes, etc) but tweak as much of everything else as you like. GIMP even lets you set up reverse (which I should have done, but forgot to click, so I copied the frames one by one...I think I may have missed one so it's not as smooth as it could be)

Again, that picture is awesome and done by someone with skills I do not possess, but we all like happy baby sloths, right?
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...not that I would know what tripping is like either, of course.
 
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